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Artist Statement:
VISIT www.amandavangils.com
Statement:
My work aims to engage with
the longstanding tradition of
Australian landscape painting
yet offer a contemporary take
on the genre. Through my work
I aim to explore our dynamic
psychological relationship to
the world around us.
In the past I have explored
the idea ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
CURRENT EXHIBIION
Views from a Speeding Train
Jenny Port Gallery
3rd - 20th December
Level One, 7 Albert Street
Richmond, VIC, 3121
AUSTRALIA
Opening Night Wednesday 3rd
December 6pm - 8pm
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 So much to see and do,
Frances Keevil Gallery, Sydney
2007 A Poetic Line, Rex
Livingston Art ...
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Artist Galleries:
ANTHEA POLSON ART
Shop 19-20 Mariners Cove
Seaworld Drive Main Beach QLD
4217
(next to Marina Mirage)
Phone: 07 5561 1166
info@antheapolsonart.com.au
http://www.antheapolsonart.com.
au
JENNY PORT GALLERY
Level 1, 7 Albert Street
RICHMOND, VICTORIA 3121
AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 3 9429 6006
info@jennyportgallery....
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Collections:
Public Collections:
Monash University, Victoria,
AUS
Chisholm Institute, Victoria,
AUS
Private Collections:
Auckland, New Zealand
Sydney, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Queensland, Australia
New York, USA
Berlin, Germany
London, UK...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Reviews for Amanda Van Gils:
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2008 Nelson, Robert, 'Vigilance of the machine', The Age, 3rd December, p. 22
2008 Bentley-Singh, Emily, 'All Aboard the Glory Train', Melbourne Weekly Eastern, Edition 46, 17th November.
2008 Modra, Penny. 'Visual Arts Reviews', M - The Sunday Age, 16th November, p.32
2008 Nelson, Robert, 'John Leslie Art Prize', The Age, 8th October, p. 20
2008 Nainby, Bryony, 'The Fall into Understanding', John Leslie Art Prize 2008 catalogue essay, September, p.5
2008 Gray, Steve, 'Artists at Work - Interviews with Contemporary Visual Artists' Art Re-Source blog, 13th November http://stevegray.com.au/blog/amanda-van-gils/
2008 Girdham, Ronnie, 'Exciting times in visual arts', Courier Mail, 24th February
2006 Montua, Gabriel, 'Amanda van Gils - A traveller between fiction and reality (The Go-betweener)', Mimosa Extra, Vol 3/06 Berlin, p.19 - 21.
2006 Davis, Brendan, 'Amanda van Gils Everything is possible, there are no limits', Art Interview Online Magazine, Issue 006/06, Berlin.
2006 World of Art, 'FAMOUS 100 Contemporary Artists Vol 3', London p. 203.
December 2006
"Art Interview Online Magazine is proud to introduce the first place winner of the Art Interview - 4th International Online Artist Competition; Australian artist Amanda van Gils"
"Art Interview Online Magazine brings subscribers exclusive interviews with the world's top artists, curators and art dealers. If you are interested in how today's most successful artists began their careers, what it took to make it and who helped them along the way, I encourage you to join us."
Brendan Davis
Editor in Chief
Art Interview Online Magazine
September 2006
"Amanda van Gils - A traveller between fiction and reality (the Go-betweener)" featured as 'Artist Spotlight' in Mimosa Extra Vol 3 2006. Mimosa Extra is distributed in hard copy in Berlin, Paris and New York and is available online as a pdf file.
View the online version here: http://www.mimosaextra.com/html/iii_06_-pdf.html
April 2006
Amanda van Gils awarded 1st place in the Art Interview - 4th International Online Artist Competition.
The competition ran from January 1st to March 31st 2006 and attracted artists from Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States. 141 original works were submitted.
Interview to appear in forthcoming issue of Art Interview http://www.art-interview.com
February 2006
Amanda van Gils awarded Prize of Excellence in the REAL-TIME 2005 /06 award. Prize includes one-page in "FAMOUS 100 Contemporary Artists" volume three (art book edited and published by WoA, value $2,250.00). See entries at: http://www.artoteque.com/artotech/realtime_show1.htm/realTIME_artists.htm
July 2004
.....Amanda’s paintings represent a dream-like state of consciousness, located somewhere between fiction and reality. Depicting the atmospheric transition from night to day, figures traverse through the sky in surrealistic fantasy. Capturing the moment of waking, when a person is caught between dream and reality, the images reflect this sense of disillusion. As hypnotic as they are beautiful, the paintings are meticulously rendered and highly technically achieved, proficiently describing the artist’s intentions while also allowing for individual interpretation......
Melissa Loughnan
August 2003
Amanda van Gils is a young Melbourne artist who has this year been short listed for no less than six art prizes. It is easy to see what has generated this excitement. Her recent works evoke the experience of travel, as twilight sets loose the connections of the familiar landscape and road with our personal histories. As the end of the day is inhabited by our memories, so the road home carries the reminders of its history. Each speaks of small but significant displacement to accommodate the other.
Dr. M. Krautschneider
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